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  • EM HUNTER: Don't believe the 'perfect mother' myth
    As I was watching my son's soccer game just before Mother's Day last year, a mom was trying to get her husband to get a chair out of the car. She implored him but he just looked at her. I couldn't help but chime in: "Hey, it's Mother's Day weekend!" He went to get the chair. On his way, he told me half-jokingly, "That was no fair." Everyone chuckled. A reminder about Mother's Day inspired him to do an unpleasant chore.
  • CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Take half a loaf in Zimbabwe
    In Zimbabwe, despair flows with the force of the Victoria Falls on its northern border. The African country used to sparkle like the rainbow over the falls until strongman Robert Mugabe led it to economic, social, and political ruin. Now there's a chance to turn him out - if it isn't lost in a mist of despair.
  • HOPE FERDOWSIAN: Fighting the food crisis one bite at a time
    Ntombi must be so hungry - and so desperate. That's all I can think as I read the endless stream of headlines about skyrocketing food prices. Amid the talk of abstract economic factors, her memory brings home the human cost of the worldwide food shortage.
  • MIAMI HERALD: Put ideology aside when disaster strikes
    At first, the world held its breath to see if the military junta ruling Myanmar was going to bow to the realities of the tragedy that struck there Saturday and ask for outside help - or just sit tight and remain isolated behind its iron veil, ignoring the immense suffering of its people in the wake of Cyclone Nargis.
  • JOHN B. QUIGLEY: Plain talk with Hamas may be best way to foster peace
    Jimmy Carter's recent foray to Damascus has netted him scorn, and few compliments. The former president, who held talks there with leaders of Hamas, stands accused of lending credibility to terrorists. The State Department has come down on Carter for ignoring the official U.S. policy, which is to isolate Hamas.
  • LEWIS W. DIUGUID: Race now an uncomfortable part of Obama's campaign
    Black ministers historically have emphasized race. It's part of the church tradition dating back to slavery in which good black preachers decry racism, minister to the many souls racism wounds and preach the gospel of overcoming. Race has always been an inseparable part of the black church.
  • OLEG MITYAYEV: President Medvedev's economic challenges
    Russia's new president, Dmitry Medvedev, has inherited many economic problems, such as Russia's dependence on raw materials, monopolies, red tape and corruption, which are spurring prices and hindering economic development.
  • TOM DE LUCA: Hey, Democrats - nominate faster
    The Democratic Party should bring the presidential nomination battle to a conclusion as soon as possible. The fairest, most decisive way to do that is to move its convention from the end of August to the end of June.
  • CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Endless but revealing primaries
    The Democrats' presidential contest resembles the movie "Groundhog Day." You wake up the morning after each contest, and little has changed. One candidate's up, the other down, while each retains the same supporters, and Barack Obama leads by a nose. Shouldn't this be over by now?
  • SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA BLOG: Battle for Baghdad shifts to Sadr City
    The battle for Iraq has shifted to Sadr City, the massive slum in northwest Baghdad that's home to about two and a half million people. For the past six weeks, hardly a day has gone by without a report of Shiite insurgents in Sadr City taking aim at U.S. or Iraqi (mostly U.S.) troops. The entire area is under siege in a way that many other Baghdad neighborhoods have been before in this war - the difference being that probably no place is as big, or as hard to control, as Sadr City.
  • Editorial Roundup
    Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:
  • MIAMI HERALD: Toward equal pay for equal work
    U.S. workers were the losers when the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act recently died in the Senate. The measure would have restored a common-sense deadline allowing employees to sue for pay discrimination whenever they become aware of it. The bill was named for a woman who lost her discrimination claim last year when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that she had not filed her lawsuit in time.

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